GURPS O'Neill Cylinder Design

AlexanderHowl · 01-05-2021, 05:03 PM

Well, 8 Flora would be the ideal location for such mines, as it is the closest of the large asteroids at 2.2 AU, meaning that it could supply the entire Inner System with industrial minerals. 20 TW of energy production would require 60,000 square kilometers of solar arrays, which would be 60 million metric tons of materials. At $10 per kilogram of industrial materials, the industrial materials would generate $600 billion in revenue during the 25 years of production.

01-05-2021, 05:03 PM	#36
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: GURPS O'Neill Cylinder Design Well, 8 Flora would be the ideal location for such mines, as it is the closest of the large asteroids at 2.2 AU, meaning that it could supply the entire Inner System with industrial minerals. 20 TW of energy production would require 60,000 square kilometers of solar arrays, which would be 60 million metric tons of materials. At $10 per kilogram of industrial materials, the industrial materials would generate $600 billion in revenue during the 25 years of production.

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